Telangana to become the 29th state

Hyderabad, Dec 10 (PTI) The decision to carve out a
separate state of Telangana, which will take the total number
of states in the Union to 29, comes at the end of a 40-year-
old struggle for a distinct identity.

This comes after a gap of nine years when three new
states were carved out. India's eastern state of Jharkhand
split from Bihar on November 15, 2000 to become the 28th state
while the northern state of Uttarakhand split from Uttar
Pradesh on November 9 and the central state of Chattisgarh was
created on November one the same year.
The southern state of Andhra Pradesh has 23
districts, including the state capital Hyderabad, in three
regions – coastal Andhra (nine), Rayalaseema (four) and
Telangana (ten).
Since its inception in 2001, the Telangana Rashtra
Samiti (TRS) has been fighting for creation of a separate
Telangana state. Telangana region now accounts for 119 of
the 294 seats in the Assembly and 17 of the 42 Lok Sabha
(Lower House of Indian Parliament) members.
Telangan region comprises Hyderabad, Adilabad,
Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Medak, Warangal, Rangareddy, Nalgonda,
Khammam and Mahbubnagar.
The demand for a separate state began in 1969 but the
Congress then had stoutly opposed any move for additional
linguistic states.
Disillusioned by it, firebrand Congress party leader M
Channa Reddy broke away and formed the Telangana Praja Samithi
(Telangan Popular Association) in 1969.
The first movement of a separate Telangana state
started met with a gory end in 1971. As a counter, the "Jai
Andhra" agitation was taken up in 1972-73. MORE PTI VMN
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